The Resource Singapore noir, edited by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
Singapore noir, edited by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
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The item Singapore noir, edited by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item Singapore noir, edited by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- "Singapore, with its great wealth and great poverty existing amid ethnic, linguistic, and cultural tensions, offers fertile ground for bleak fiction, as shown by the 14 tales in this solid Akashic noir anthology...Tan has assembled a strong lineup of Singapore natives and knowledgeable visitors for this volume exploring the dark side of a fascinating country." -- -- Singapore Noir-- -- -- Write Lies Launched with the summer '04 award-winning best seller -- Singapore For much of the West, the narrative of Singapore--a modern Southeast Asian city-state perched on an island on the tip of the Malay Peninsula--has been marked largely by its government's strict laws and unwavering enforcement of them...As much as I understand these outside viewpoints, I have always lamented that the quirky and dark complexities of my native country's culture rarely seem to make it past its borders... Beneath its sparkling veneer is a country teeming with shadows...And its stories remain. The rich stories that attracted literary lions W. Somerset Maugham and Rudyard Kipling to hold court at the Raffles Hotel (where the Singapore Sling was created) are still sprinkled throughout its neighborhoods. And in the following pages, you'll get the chance to discover some of them... You'll find stories from some of the best contemporary writers in Singapore--three of them winners of the Singapore Literature Prize, essentially the country's Pulitzer: Simon Tay, writing as Donald Tee Quee Ho, tells the story of a hard-boiled detective who inadvertently wends his way into the underbelly of organized crime, Colin Cheong shows us a surprising side to the country's ubiquitous cheerful 'taxi uncle,' while Suchen Christine Lim spins a wistful tale of a Chinese temple medium whose past resurges to haunt her... As for mine, I chose a setting close to my heart--the kelongs This is a Singapore rarely explored in Western literature--until now. No Disneyland here; but there is a death penalty."
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (237 pages)
- Contents
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- Last time / Colin Goh
- Detective in a city with no crime / Simon Tay writing as Donald Tee Quee Ho
- Strangler fig / Philip Jeyaretnam
- Smile, Singapore / Colin Cheong
- Reel / Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
- Mother / Monica Bhide
- Kena Sai / S.J. Rozan
- Tattoo / Lawrence Osborne
- Mei Kwei, I love you / Suchen Christine Lim
- Spells / Ovidia Yu
- Saiful and the Pink Edward VII / Damon Chua
- Current escape / Johann S. Lee
- Bedok reservoir / Dave Chua
- Murder on Orchard Road / Nury Vittachi
- Isbn
- 9781617752810
- Label
- Singapore noir
- Title
- Singapore noir
- Statement of responsibility
- edited by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
- Subject
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- Electronic books
- FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors)
- FICTION / General
- FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Collections & Anthologies
- FICTION / Mystery & Detective / International Mystery & Crime
- Fiction
- Noir fiction, English
- Noir fiction, English
- Singapore
- Singapore -- Fiction
- TRAVEL / Asia / Southeast
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Singapore, with its great wealth and great poverty existing amid ethnic, linguistic, and cultural tensions, offers fertile ground for bleak fiction, as shown by the 14 tales in this solid Akashic noir anthology...Tan has assembled a strong lineup of Singapore natives and knowledgeable visitors for this volume exploring the dark side of a fascinating country." -- -- Singapore Noir-- -- -- Write Lies Launched with the summer '04 award-winning best seller -- Singapore For much of the West, the narrative of Singapore--a modern Southeast Asian city-state perched on an island on the tip of the Malay Peninsula--has been marked largely by its government's strict laws and unwavering enforcement of them...As much as I understand these outside viewpoints, I have always lamented that the quirky and dark complexities of my native country's culture rarely seem to make it past its borders... Beneath its sparkling veneer is a country teeming with shadows...And its stories remain. The rich stories that attracted literary lions W. Somerset Maugham and Rudyard Kipling to hold court at the Raffles Hotel (where the Singapore Sling was created) are still sprinkled throughout its neighborhoods. And in the following pages, you'll get the chance to discover some of them... You'll find stories from some of the best contemporary writers in Singapore--three of them winners of the Singapore Literature Prize, essentially the country's Pulitzer: Simon Tay, writing as Donald Tee Quee Ho, tells the story of a hard-boiled detective who inadvertently wends his way into the underbelly of organized crime, Colin Cheong shows us a surprising side to the country's ubiquitous cheerful 'taxi uncle,' while Suchen Christine Lim spins a wistful tale of a Chinese temple medium whose past resurges to haunt her... As for mine, I chose a setting close to my heart--the kelongs This is a Singapore rarely explored in Western literature--until now. No Disneyland here; but there is a death penalty."
- Cataloging source
- TEFOD
- Dewey number
- 823/.0872083585957
- Illustrations
- maps
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR1309.N65
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Tan, Cheryl Lu-lien
- Series statement
- Akashic noir series
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- FICTION / General
- Noir fiction, English
- FICTION / Mystery & Detective / International Mystery & Crime
- FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors)
- TRAVEL / Asia / Southeast
- FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Collections & Anthologies
- Noir fiction, English
- Singapore
- Singapore
- Label
- Singapore noir, edited by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Last time / Colin Goh -- Detective in a city with no crime / Simon Tay writing as Donald Tee Quee Ho -- Strangler fig / Philip Jeyaretnam -- Smile, Singapore / Colin Cheong -- Reel / Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan -- Mother / Monica Bhide -- Kena Sai / S.J. Rozan -- Tattoo / Lawrence Osborne -- Mei Kwei, I love you / Suchen Christine Lim -- Spells / Ovidia Yu -- Saiful and the Pink Edward VII / Damon Chua -- Current escape / Johann S. Lee -- Bedok reservoir / Dave Chua -- Murder on Orchard Road / Nury Vittachi
- Control code
- ocn879289337
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (237 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781617752810
- Isbn Type
- (electronic bk.)
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- map.
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 356C44EC-32E9-4B04-9969-B5299595BE96
- Label
- Singapore noir, edited by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Last time / Colin Goh -- Detective in a city with no crime / Simon Tay writing as Donald Tee Quee Ho -- Strangler fig / Philip Jeyaretnam -- Smile, Singapore / Colin Cheong -- Reel / Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan -- Mother / Monica Bhide -- Kena Sai / S.J. Rozan -- Tattoo / Lawrence Osborne -- Mei Kwei, I love you / Suchen Christine Lim -- Spells / Ovidia Yu -- Saiful and the Pink Edward VII / Damon Chua -- Current escape / Johann S. Lee -- Bedok reservoir / Dave Chua -- Murder on Orchard Road / Nury Vittachi
- Control code
- ocn879289337
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (237 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781617752810
- Isbn Type
- (electronic bk.)
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- map.
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 356C44EC-32E9-4B04-9969-B5299595BE96
Subject
- Electronic books
- FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors)
- FICTION / General
- FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Collections & Anthologies
- FICTION / Mystery & Detective / International Mystery & Crime
- Fiction
- Noir fiction, English
- Noir fiction, English
- Singapore
- Singapore -- Fiction
- TRAVEL / Asia / Southeast
Genre
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